1. Your Personal Story and Impact
Please answer all parts listed below. We recommend your complete answer to this question be between 400 and 700 words.
a. At LinkedIn, we strive for a culture that embraces and represents diverse ways of thinking, background, and approaches to solving the world’s problems. Tell us how your unique experiences and background shape the point of view that you will bring to LinkedIn. We are looking to understand your unique perspective, story, and background, along with how that influences the point of view you will bring to LinkedIn and your work as an engineer.
b. We are looking for apprentices who are committed to reaching their goal of becoming an engineer. Tell us how you have demonstrated continuous perseverance and tenacity to achieve a long-term goal or overcome challenges and setbacks throughout your life.
2. Your Journey into Programming
Please answer all parts listed below. We recommend your complete answer to this question be between 500 and 900 words.
a. We recognize that there are many paths to programming and we would like you to walk us through yours. Tell us what sparked your interest in becoming a programmer and why you decided to explore that interest.
b. How have you grown your skills independently or formally (consider personal projects, volunteer work, bootcamps, courses, or professional roles)? Beyond applying to this program, share how you plan to continue mastering coding and how it fits into your long-term goals.
c. What appeals to you specifically about the Backend Apprentice Engineer role over the other REACH apprenticeship roles? We recommend that you reference the position guidance to understand the role you are applying to. We are looking to understand how this interest has been demonstrated. Consider projects you have worked on, courses you have taken, prior positions you have enjoyed, etc.
3. Your Engineering Talent
Please answer all parts listed below. We recommend that your complete answer to this question be at least 400 words, but please use as many words as you need so that we fully understand your coding examples. In your answer, we would ideally like to see direct links to code you have written that you are most proud of, and that demonstrate your awesome ability. For example, you can send us a link to your Github project, but even better would be a link to files inside the Github project that shows off your skills! We also love demo sites, videos, and outside of the box thinking! Do not use formatting or hyperlinks. Include the full URL link to any media (YouTube, GitHub, Vimeo, etc.).
If you cannot share a link to the code that you’ve written, please make sure to describe the project in detail and give us as much information as you can about the project. We will need to understand your project without seeing the code, so please help us to do that.
Every engineer at LinkedIn writes code. Part of our evaluation process for this program is to understand your coding ability.
a. Tell us about coding projects that you have completed in the past or are currently working on. You can share links to code you have written, a product or website you have built, an open-source project you have contributed to, and/or your favorite problem that you have solved. Where possible, please include independent or solo projects where we can see your direct contributions. If your examples include group work, please describe your individual contribution to the project.
b. In addition to your examples, please tell us about what interesting challenges you faced, any gaps in knowledge you had to bridge, or new frameworks, algorithms, or data structures you utilized to solve a problem. Highlight how this coding work demonstrates your interest in this particular role.
